Written, Oral and Visual Communication: Communicate effectively in writing, orally and/or visually using traditional and/or modern information resources and supporting technology.
Scientific and Quantitative Reasoning: Locate, identify, collect, and organize data in order to thenanalyze, interpret or evaluate it using mathematical skills and/or the scientific method.
Critical Thinking:Differentiate between facts, influences, opinions, and assumptions toreach reasoned and supportable conclusions.
Problem Solving: Recognize and identify the components of a problem or issue, look at itfrom multiple perspectivesand investigate ways to resolve it.
Information Literacy: Formulate strategies to locate, evaluate and apply information from a variety of sources - print and/or electronic.
First: Please rank on a scale of 1 to 5 (5=high) - how important each of these general outcomes are to to each of your classes in the matrix as follows:
Effective
Communication
Scientific or
Quantitative
Reasoning
Critical
Thinking Problem Solving
Information
Literacy
ENGL 62
5
1
3
3
ENGL 62L
5
1
3
3
ENGL 70
5
1
3
1
ENGL 71
5
1
3
1
ENGL 72
5
1
3
1
ENGL 73
5
1
3
1
ENGL 74
5
1
3
1
ENGL 75
5
1
3
1
ENGL 77
5
1
3
1
ENGL 78
5
1
3
1
ENGL 79
5
1
3
1
ENGL 92
5
1
3
3
ENGL 92L
5
1
3
1
ENGL 95
5
1
3
1
ENGL 96
5
1
3
1
ENGL 97
5
1
3
1
ENGL 98
5
1
3
4
ENGL 98A
5
1
3
4
ENGL 98B
5
1
3
4
ENGL 98SL
5
1
3
4
ENGL 99
5
1
3
1
ENGL 116
5
1
5
4
ENGL 120
5
1
5
5
ENGL 120SL
5
1
5
5
English Skills Discipline Problem Solving and Critical Thinking SLOs (from 2005)
In our department we teach students to approach problem solving in reading by:
Identifying and explaining key ideas
identifying and listing appropriate supporting ideas
recognizing implied main ideas
understanding relationships that involve addition, time comparison, contrast, cause and effect and examples
distinguishing between facts and opinion
And in writing by:
employing the writing process: prewriting/brainstorming, outlining, drafting, editing, and finalizing
choosing appropriate writing strategies to support ideas
supporting a main idea with concrete and logical support
using a variety of sentence types to accomplish tasks
English Skills
College Learning Outcomes:
Pdf of what each course fulfills:
Bloom's Taxonomy:
SEE BELOW FOR COURSE OUTLINE SLOs ATTACHMENT.
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First: Please rank on a scale of 1 to 5 (5=high) - how important each of these general outcomes are to to each of your classes in the matrix as follows:Communication
Quantitative
Reasoning
Thinking
Problem
Solving
Literacy
English Skills Discipline Problem Solving and Critical Thinking SLOs (from 2005)
In our department we teach students to approach problem solvingin reading by:
- Identifying and explaining key ideas
- identifying and listing appropriate supporting ideas
- recognizing implied main ideas
- understanding relationships that involve addition, time comparison, contrast, cause and effect and examples
- distinguishing between facts and opinion
And in writing by:Most up-to-date SLOs from the course outlines
SLO template (with an example from history) to use for those courses you assess in any particular semester: